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Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky is a Russian cybersecurity expert who is the co-founder and the CEO of Kaspersky Lab, an IT security company with 4,000 employees. He was a cryptologist and officer in the Soviet army until leaving the service in 1991. He co-founded Kaspersky Lab in 1997 and helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research. He has been an advoca…
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business · Russian cybersecurity expert (born 1965) · computer scientist · programmer · inventor · writer · businessperson · also Eugene Kaspersky, Yevgeny Kaspersky, Evgeniy Valentinovich Kasperskiy, E. Kaspersky, Yevgeny Valentinovich Kaspersky, Kaspersky
Born 4 October 1965 · Q4864
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re now well into Malware III. The first stage - when he started - was dominated by file infectors and other viruses
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“They can be easily copy-pasted; it’s easy to employ engineers, easy to develop very similar weapons, and there could be some very, very bad guys somewhere in mountains who have zero clue about the technology they have, but they can pay and employ people to create it.”
“re now well into Malware III. The first stage - when he started - was dominated by file infectors and other viruses”
“s a much bigger challenge for security companies than removing known viruses, and suppliers need to add proactive technologies that identify malware behaviour in all types of program. It”
“Who are you? A small Russian company. But now we”
“their software was advanced for the time.”
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Published video “Восхождение на Ринджани”.
After switching to a subscription model, Kaspersky Anti-Virus became Kaspersky Standard and Kaspersky Internet Security was replaced by Kaspersky Plus
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Published video “11x11”.
Published video “Kurils Expedition 2022”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Helidrop to Khabarovsk”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Shantar islands”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Wrangel's Bay”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Aniva lighthouse and Tuleniy island”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Ushishir island”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Going up Krenitsyn volcano on Onekotan island”.
Published video “The Kurils-2022 expedition: Ebeko volcano on Paramushir island”.
A Texas district court dismissed Uniloc's lawsuit against Kaspersky Lab for infringement of US patent 5490216
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Banned Kaspersky's main antivirus product from U
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Kaspersky Lab faced a claim from the American company Wetro Lan, which alleged that the company had infringed US patent No
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Kaspersky and Kaspersky Lab discovered a group of hackers known as Carbanak that were stealing money from banks
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Due to disagreements over how to run the company
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The company reported revenues of $667 million, which grew to $721 million in 2023
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Another company, Lodsys, sued Kaspersky and 54 other companies for patent infringement, and that case also resulted in the claimant dropping the case against Kaspersky
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It announced plans to develop a secure operating system to protect critical infrastructure systems from online attacks
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It was the only one of 35 firms named in a suit by patent troll Information Protection and Authentication (IPAC) to take the case to court, rather than pay a fee
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Kaspersky ranked 40th in the Foreign Policy magazine's Top 100 Global Thinkers yearly rating
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Kaspersky made a decision against taking the company public, saying it would make decision-making slow and prevent long-term R&D investments
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Awarded State Prize of the Russian Federation (2009).
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And the first solo crossing of Antarctica by a woman (Kaspersky ONE Transantarctic Expedition) in 2011, also completed by Felicity Aston
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CRN: Eugene Kaspersky: Growing In Times Of Crisis
After an American company started using the product's original name, which wasn't trademarked
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Described "service level computer security" technology related to data packet filtering
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And helped identify instances of government-sponsored cyberwarfare as the head of research
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Hamburg University in Germany gave Kaspersky's software first place in a competitive analysis of antivirus software
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Kaspersky was granted an early release from his military service and left the defense ministry to take a job at the Information Technology Center of a private company KAMI, in order to work on his antivirus product full-
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When his PC was infected by the Cascade virus, while working for the Ministry of Defence
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With a degree in mathematical engineering and computer technology
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Born 1965-10-04.
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